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Real-Time Mobile-Phone-Aided Melanoma Skin Lesion Detection Using Triangulation Technique
Melanoma is a harmful disease among all types of skin cancer. Genetic factors and the exposure of UV rays causes melanoma skin lesions. Early diagnosis is important to identify malignant melanomas to improve the patient...
Published by: IGI Global
Determinants of QuantiFERON Plus-diagnosed tuberculosis infection in adult Ugandan TB contacts
Jonathan Mayito, Adrian R Martineau, Divya Tiwari, Lydia Nakiyingi, David P Kateete, Stephen T Reece, Irene Andia Biraro
Apr 17, 2023
Background
The tuberculin skin test is commonly used to diagnose latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in resource-limited settings, but its specificity is limited by factors including cross-reactivity with BCG vaccine...
Humans Tuberculosis HIV Infections Tuberculin Test Cross-Sectional Studies Adult Uganda Female Male Latent Tuberculosis Interferon-gamma Release Tests
Published by: PLOS ONE
A Comparative Study of Deep Learning Models With Handcraft Features and Non-Handcraft Features for Automatic Plant Species Identification
Shamik Tiwari
Apr 01, 2020
The classification of plants is one of the most important aims for botanists since plants have a significant part in the natural life cycle. In this work, a leaf-based automatic plant classification framework is investigated....
Environmental Technologies Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
Published by: IGI Global
Dermatoscopy Using Multi-Layer Perceptron, Convolution Neural Network, and Capsule Network to Differentiate Malignant Melanoma From Benign Nevus
Shamik Tiwari
Jul 01, 2021
Epiluminescence microscopy, more simply, dermatoscopy, entails a process using imaging to examine skin lesions. Various sorts of skin ailments, for example, melanoma, may be differentiated via these skin images. With the adverse...
Published by: IGI Global
Short-Term Load Forecasting for a Captive Power Plant Using Artificial Neural Network
The irregularity of Indian grid system increases, with increase in the power demand. The quality of power supplied by the power grid is also poor due to continuous variation in frequency and voltage. To overcome this problem of...
Published by: IGI Global
EMD-Based Semantic User Similarity Using Past Travel Histories
The cost-effective and easy availability of handheld mobile devices and ubiquity of location acquisition services such as GPS and GSM networks has helped expedient logging and sharing of location histories of mobile users. This...
Published by: IGI Global
Measuring CRM Effectiveness in Indian Stock Broking Services
The article tried to develop a multi-item scale for analyzing CRM effectiveness (CRME) from the customer perspective in the Indian stock broking context. The results revealed that customer satisfaction could be improved through...
Published by: IGI Global
A Novel Hybrid Approach for Chronic Disease Classification
A two-phase diagnostic framework based on hybrid classification for the diagnosis of chronic disease is proposed. In the first phase, feature selection via ReliefF method and feature extraction via PCA method are incorporated....
Published by: IGI Global
Detecting Fake News Over Job Posts via Bi-Directional Long Short-Term Memory (BIDLSTM)
Fake news detection on job advertisements has grabbed the attention of many researchers over past decade. Various classifiers such as Support Vector Machine (SVM), XGBoost Classifier and Random Forest (RF) methods are greatly...
Published by: IGI Global
Adaptive Ontology-Based IoT Resource Provisioning in Computing Systems
The eagle expresses of cloud computing plays a pivotal role in the development of technology. The aim is to solve in such a way that it will provide an optimized solution. The key role of allocating these efficient resources and...
Published by: IGI Global
OCC
In the recent trends, cloud computing service users agreed on the concept of pay and use model by accessing all the best services provided by the providers. The major problem here is that there is no standardization so that not...
Published by: IGI Global
Finite Element Modelling for Failure Prevention of Coated Piston Compression Ring
Finite element simulation using ANSYS software, to analyze the effect of coating layers of different materials on piston compression ring. Similar material properties to that in the actual structural piston-compression-ring were...
Published by: IGI Global
Blockchain Adoption for Provenance and Traceability in the Retail Food Supply Chain
Blockchain has evolved as one of the disruptive technologies in the landscape of business. The study aims to investigate drivers of consumer adoption of blockchain for product origin and track to trace history before making a...
Published by: IGI Global
Simulated Workbench Design for Characterisation and Selection of Appropriate Outlier Ensemble Algorithm
Outlier ensembles can enhance the performance of outlier detection algorithms. However, identification of an appropriate outlier ensemble algorithm for the given application is a difficult task. In order to achieve this...
Published by: IGI Global
Diagnosing COVID-19 From Chest CT Scan Images Using Deep Learning Models
A novel coronavirus named COVID-19 has spread speedily and has triggered a worldwide outbreak of respiratory illness. Early diagnosis is always crucial for pandemic control. Compared to RT-PCR, chest computed tomography (CT)...
Published by: IGI Global
Controller Design for Temperature Control of MISO Water Tank System
This article introduces the design of split range control and fuzzy logic control for temperature control of the MISO (multiple input single output) water tank scheme. A multiple input single output (MISO) system is considered...
Published by: IGI Global
Paradigm Shift in the Education Sector Amidst COVID-19 to Improve Online Engagement
The study aims to identify social, intellectual and conceptual structures along with key areas, contributors, current dynamics and suggest future research directions in the field of engagement with e-learning systems. An...
Published by: IGI Global
A Novel Power-Efficient Data Aggregation Scheme for Cloud-Based Sensor Networks
Nowadays sensor nodes are being deployed anywhere as per the applications and real-time data analysis. A major concern of this implementation is the limited battery power and huge data generation. The data redundancy can also...
Published by: IGI Global
An Improved and Adaptive Approach in ANFIS to Predict Knee Diseases
Artificial intelligence is emerging as a persuasive tool in the field of medical science. This research work also primarily focuses on the development of a tool to automate the diagnosis of inflammatory diseases of the knee...
Published by: IGI Global
PNTRS
A news recommendation system not only must recommend the latest, trending and personalized news to the users but also give opportunity to know about the people’s opinion on trending news. Most of the existing news recommendation...
Published by: IGI Global
Decentralized Identity Management Using Blockchain
Sangeeta Bharadwaj, Prageet Aeron, Ashish Singla, Nakul Gupta, Anshul Jain, Divya Sharma
Dec 29, 2022
This article explores the usage of decentralised identity (DID) management using blockchain in global organisations to support secure usage of information resources. Blockchain as technology was initially introduced as a...
Published by: IGI Global
Identification of Potential Mpro Inhibitors for the Treatment of COVID-19 by Targeted Covalent Inhibition
Dushyant Patel, Divya Teli, Ashish Kanhed, Nirav Patel, Bhavik Shah, Amisha Vora, Mahesh Chhabria, Mange Yadav
Apr 01, 2021
A novel coronavirus is the causative agent identified for the current COVID-19 outbreak. Globally, more than 43 million people have been infected by this virus. The total number of deaths has surpassed 1.6 million across 210...
Published by: IGI Global